Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931

Poet, philosopher, and
artist, was born in Lebanon, a land that has produced many
prophets. The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar
with his writings in that language consider him the genius
of his age. But he was a man whose fame and influence spread
far beyond the Near East. His poetry has been translated
into more than twenty languages.

His drawings and paintings
have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and
compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake. In
the United States, which he made his home during the last
twenty years of his life, he began to write in English.

The Prophet
and his other books of poetry, illustrated with his mystical
drawings, are known and loved by innumerable Americans who
find in them an expression of the deepest impulses of man's
heart and mind.

This quotation is from The
Prophet's dust jacket, published by Knopf, NY